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Have you noticed that SPY option calls are trading at a discount recently as well? And the puts are trading at a premium... I think that is because some investors are anticipating a correction in February. That is what my model spit out in November last year.

What is the best trading platform for options fills? I have been getting terrible fills with Ameritrade. The transaction cost is not only the commission. It includes the bid/ask spread. I need a better bid/ask. I talked to another options trader and he said to use two or three different...

You're welcome to use my code. http://financechatroom.com/options-greeks-vba-functions

I'm sure there were people doing it even before him. Just because we dont name something that already exists doesnt mean it doesnt exist or someone else doesnt already use it.

Not at all. I could give you loads of reasons why its easier to play the market like its a bear and then move out but the list would be way too long. The point is that what we are looking at is the product of international interactions which were not present during the great depression and the...

I mean... there is the basic misconception which governs much of security analysis as well as market analysis. Figure out how to make money with that using a chart and some lines and I'll be surprised.

George Soros isn't a technical analyst why are you applying technical analysis to him. He called technical analysis at one point a "utter waste of time." As for his method -- it's got to be parity based and partly just psychological because he looks for interactions between the supply and...

You really, and I mean really, want to read the Alchemy of Finance. George Soro's looks for reflexive processes because he believes the market in naturally out of equilibrium and isolates around disequilibrium which is why traditional fundamental analysis and technical analysis fail. He also...

You can have a negative retained earnings when a company pays out dividends on expected future income. Companies do this when they believe their stock price is getting low as an internal strategy and it's kind of a shady ordeal, possibly could be an indicator of an expectation to get bought...

Which metrics should I use in a model when attempting to model stock price based on correlation coefficients with linear programming? I'm attempting to study the correlations of a specific stock to take into account positive news events, negative news events, profits, net income, etc, but I do...